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West Point Inn

From the deck West Point Inn, you have fine views that range from Mt. Diablo to the Pacific Ocean. Drinks and snacks are available when the Inn is open. Rustic overnight accommodations are available here at $25 per person per night for adults, $12 for children under 18, free for children under 5. For reservations, call (415) 646-0702, Tuesday through Friday, 11 A.M. to 7 P.M.

To resume hiking, follow Old Railroad Grade uphill, around the west side of the inn. After about 125 feet, turn left onto the Rock Spring Trail, a single track, and follow it on a level grade through a corridor of chaparral. At about 2 miles, you step across Spike Buck Creek, only a foot or so wide, and then begin to gain elevation over rocky, eroded ground.

Soon you reach a junction, right, with the Alice Eastwood Trail. The trail name honors noted botanist Alice Eastwood (1859–1953), who for 57 years was curator of botany at the California Academy of Sciences. The naming of Eastwood manzanita, a local species, and the designation of Camp Alice Eastwood, which lies just north of Muir Woods, were two more honors bestowed upon the woman whom author Dorothy L. Whitnah called “the patron saint” of Mt. Tamalpais.